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| How to back down Putin | | Unable either to win the war in Ukraine by proxy or to retreat from the conflict because of the enormous blow a defeat would deliver to his regime's legitimacy, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be sending in regular troops to attack Ukraine. The action is south of rebel-held Donetsk, which, until Russia's heightened involvement this week, was on the verge of being retaken by the Ukrainian army. |
| Ukraine troops leave border? | | There is a forbidding sense among Ukrainians that their fate is still out of their control. CNN's Diana Magnay reports. |
| Girl, 9, dies in beach sand collapse | | A 9-year-old died at an Oregon beach when a hole she was digging in the sand caved in and buried her, authorities said. Beachgoers frantically tried to dig her out, but sand kept collapsing back into the hole. |
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